Chapter 12 of The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
More men appeared. "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry. "Lynch him! Lynch him!" Elder dove back the way he had come.
Chapter 12 of The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading “More men appeared.”
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading “"The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.”
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading “"The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.”
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading “"The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.”
any of numerous small pigeons
From this reading “Elder dove back the way he had come.”
a person who is older than you are
From this reading “Elder dove back the way he had come.”
kill without legal sanction
From this reading “"Lynch him!”
a vagrant
From this reading “"The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading More men appeared.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Elder dove back the way he had come.
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Elder dove back the way he had come.
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.
any of numerous small pigeons
From this reading Elder dove back the way he had come.
a person who is older than you are
From this reading Elder dove back the way he had come.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Elder dove back the way he had come.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Elder dove back the way he had come.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Lynch him!
kill without legal sanction
From this reading "Lynch him!
the force of workers available
From this reading More men appeared.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading More men appeared.
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.
a vagrant
From this reading "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading Elder dove back the way he had come.
which person or people
From this reading "The tramp who burned the car!" rose the cry.
Chapter 12 of The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure by Francis Lovell Coombs holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 12 holds 400 sentences of The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure by Francis Lovell Coombs exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 400 sentences, grouped into 80 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 80 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 12 can be played aloud in United States English.
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